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oapen-20.500.12657-301072024-03-25T09:51:49Z Fact and Fiction Lehleiter, Christine Literature Charles Darwin Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Johann Gottfried Herder Johann Wolfgang von Goethe thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 "Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction’s twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin’s poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and Goethe’s Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two." 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:45:15Z 2020-04-01T12:45:15Z 2016-01-01 book 649993 OCN: 945783782 9781487511401 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30107 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 604621.pdf University of Toronto Press 4af200cf-cd4b-42da-b77f-53784aeda421 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781487511401 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103456 KU Round 2 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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"Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction’s twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin’s poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and Goethe’s Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two."
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